alliance, surrender, limited surrender, war

[adamcs]

I am playing a long scenario with Austria. It started really well, I was allied with Prussia against France and had good relation with Russia and Britain (both +500). Britain refused alliance - why??? Two turns later Russia declared war on me along with Turkey. Next turn, Britain declared war, next turn Prussia broke alliance, and finally, ice on the cake, Prussia declared war. All these within 5 turns!!!

No idea what went wrong, what I should have done. Basically all I did was withdrew my army from the western front onto homeland, and declared myself an empire. Maybe this empire thing upset the others so much??? Above all, no one accepts limited surrender. No one accepts cease fire.

What can I do to make a nation alliance? How can I do limited surrender? How can I keep my alliance? How can I make a nation accept cease fire?

At the moment that's all[:'(]

Thank you.

[Mus]

I am guessing ALL OF EUROPE WAS ALARMED AT THE RISE OF AUSTRIA in your event report every turn before this happened?

Go back and check for that.

Basically once you hit a certain glory threshold or territorial size threshold the math on how the AI countries look at you is skewed drastically and the game tries to cut you down to size.